Harris accuses Trump of killing bipartisan border bill for political gain
On the subject of immigration, Kamala Harris accused Donald Trump of killing a bipartisan border bill earlier this year.
Harris was asked why the Biden administration waited more than three years to implement sweeping asylum instructions. Harris side-stepped the question, and said:
Trump got word of this bill that would have contributed to securing our border and because he believed it would not have helped him politically, he told his folks in Congress, ‘Don’t put it forward.’
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Kamala Harris has never met or spoken with Donald Trump in person, CNN’s Dana Bash noted in the interview.
Aside from attending Trump’s State of the Union addresses during his time as president, Harris has never been in the same room as him, according to the New York Times.
Donald Trump had just one thing to say about his opponents’ CNN interview:
Walz says he is ‘so proud’ of son Gus when asked about emotional moment at convention
Tim Walz is asked about the moment during the Democratic national convention when his son, Gus, was seen tearing up and saying: “That’s my dad.”
Walz says it was important to have his son “feel a sense of pride” that he was “trying to do the right thing”.
You try to protect your kids, you know it brings notoriety and things but it was such a visceral emotional moment. I’m grateful I got to experience and I’m so proud of him.
Harris recounts moment Joe Biden told her he was dropping out of race
Kamala Harris is asked to discuss the moment she learned Joe Biden was stepping aside from the presidential race.
Harris says she was with her family at the time, including her baby nieces and had just had pancakes and bacon. She says:
The phone rang and it was Joe Biden and he told me what he had decided to do and I asked him, ‘Are you sure?’ And he said ‘yes’ and that’s how I learned about it.
Asked whether she asked for Biden’s endorsement, Harris says the president “was very clear that he was going to support me”.
She says that when Biden called her, her first thought “was not about me”, adding: “My first thought was about him, to be honest.”
Harris says she has no regrets defending Biden’s ability to serve
Kamala Harris is asked if she has any regrets about previously telling the American people about Joe Biden’s capacity to serve another four years as president.
Harris says “not at all”, and that serving with Biden has been “one of the greatest honors of my career”.
Biden “cares so deeply about the American people”, and is “so smart and loyal”, Harris says.
He has the intelligence, the commitment, judgment and disposition that I think the American people rightly deserve in their president. By contrast, the former president has none of that.
Tim Walz says that Republicans are either attacking him for his children “for showing love” or it’s “an attack on my dog”.
Walz is also asked to clarify earlier statements he made about his family’s experiences using in vitro fertilization to conceive a child.
Walz’s wife, Gwen Walz, earlier this month said that she did not use in vitro fertilization to conceive, but rather a different fertility treatment called intrauterine insemination (IUI).
Walz tells CNN’s Dana Bash that he spoke about his and his wife’s infertility issues “because it’s hell, and families know this”.
I spoke about the treatments that were available to us … That’s quite a contrast in folks that are trying to take those rights away from us.
Walz says his military record ‘speaks for itself’
Tim Walz is asked to clarify previous comments he and his campaign has made about his time serving in the army national guard.
In a 2018 video clip, Walz spoke out about against gun violence and said, “We can make sure that those weapons of war, that I carried in war, is the only place where those weapons are at.” He subsequently apologized and said it was a misstatement.
Walz was in the army national guard for 24 years, in infantry and artillery, deploying in response to natural disasters on US soil and to Europe in support of operations in Afghanistan. He retired in 2005, to run for Congress, shortly before his unit deployed to Iraq.
Walz says he is “incredibly proud” of the 24 years he served wearing the uniform of this country and that his record “speaks for itself”.
He tells CNN that he speaks “candidly”, adding that he wears his “emotions on my sleeves”. “My record has been out there for over 40 years,” he adds.
Kamala Harris is asked about a previous policy position from 2019, when she agreed with a statement that illegal border crossings should be decriminalized.
“I believe there should be consequence,” she told CNN’s Dana Bash.
We have laws that have to be followed and enforced that address and deal with people across our border illegally, and there should be consequences.
Harris reiterates commitment to Israel’s right to defend itself and push for Gaza ceasefire
Kamala Harris is asked if she would do anything differently than Joe Biden in the US’s position on Israel’s war in Gaza.
Harris says she is “unequivocal and unwavering” in her “commitment to Israel’s defense and its ability to defend itself”, adding: “That’s not gonna change.”
She says “far too many innocent Palestinians have been killed”, and that “we have got to get a deal done”.
This war must end, and we must get a deal that is about getting the hostages out.
Harris says Trump’s comments on her racial identity are ‘same old tired playbook’
Kamala Harris is asked about Donald Trump’s questioning of her racial identity, to which she responds that it is part of the “same old tired playbook”.
During a panel hosted by the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) last month, Trump questioned Harris’s race, saying: “She was always of Indian heritage, and she was only promoting Indian heritage. I didn’t know she was Black until a number of years ago, when she happened to turn Black.”
Harris says she would appoint a Republican in her cabinet
Kamala Harris expressed openness to appointing a Republican into her cabinet. “I’ve got 68 days to go with this election, so I’m not putting the cart before the horse,” Harris told CNN.
I think it’s really important. I have spent my career inviting diversity of opinion. I think it’s important to have people at the table when some of the most important decisions are being made that have different views, different experiences. And I think it would be to the benefit of the American public to have a member of my cabinet who was a Republican.
Harris accuses Trump of killing bipartisan border bill for political gain
On the subject of immigration, Kamala Harris accused Donald Trump of killing a bipartisan border bill earlier this year.
Harris was asked why the Biden administration waited more than three years to implement sweeping asylum instructions. Harris side-stepped the question, and said:
Trump got word of this bill that would have contributed to securing our border and because he believed it would not have helped him politically, he told his folks in Congress, ‘Don’t put it forward.’